Monthly notes 46

December is full Christmas carrols and hassle before holidays. So, take a short break and learn to master Kubernetes, become better human and developer and make remote (working) a success. Also think about privacy. Good reading and happy holidays!

Issue 46, 17.12.2019

Cloud

Mastering the KUBECONFIG fileGood tips like Auto-$KUBECONFIG based on directory with direnv; Know which context you’re pointing at with kube-ps1; Save GKE contexts to separate files. (from @walokra)

JavaScript

20 ways to become a better Node.js developer in 2020"20 skills, technologies and considerations on choosing between them. Picking the right tools became one of our greatest challenges — the Node.js ecosystem has matured and present attractive options in almost every field. Vanilla or TypeScript? Ava, Mocha or Jest? Express, Fastify or Koa? or maybe Nest?"

How to Make Remote a Success"It's all about sharing and communicating". E.g. Write down everything: knowledge base to blog posts, make weekly notes; Make everyone feel connected: smarter meetings, daily check-ins/check-outs. Hacker News comments

Tools

FxCommand-line tool and terminal JSON viewer. "If you’ve got some files full of JSON that you want to process, Fx will slice and dice it however you want, including using JavaScript one-liners to add a bit of logic to the process." (from DB Weekly #284)